While hunting advocacy groups and members of Congress who back them are cheering the decision from the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to allow imports on a case-by-case basis, others are knocking the move.

Two conservative media hosts who pushed Trump in November to put a pause on a decision to overturn an established trophy import ban are among those urging him to hold up the Obama-era order.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted a plea to Trump on Wednesday asking him to change the new policy and warning him what could happen to supporters if he did not.

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“Please @realDonaldTrump, stick with your good instinct on this. We do NOT want to reward animal poaching. You will alienate independents & conservationists! #RespectAllofGodsEarth,” she tweeted.

Ingraham previously tweeted at Trump in November saying, “I don't understand how this move by @realDonaldTrump Admin will not INCREASE the gruesome poaching of elephants. Stay tuned.”

The next day, facing widespread backlash over the move, Trump tweeted saying he was putting a hold on the decision.

Conservative radio host Michael Savage has also spoken out against the FWS policy this week, writing in a blog post Wednesday that he “felt betrayed” by the administration’s secret decision after having previously spoken in person with Trump on the issue.

“I had spent a dinner talking to the President about environmental issues, and especially this, and this is what happened anyway,” Savage wrote.

“I made it clear that this was a red line that could not be crossed, that now elephants, lions and other big game had a target painted on them. I explained that the root of ‘conservative’ is the same as ‘conservation’ and the two do not need to be diametrically opposed. I explained what was meant by dominion, as I carefully spelled out in God Faith and Reason.”

"We hope that the president will step in here and overrule this order," he added.

“The bottom line is, if you want to conserve a species, the best conservationists are hunters. Because you want to legally take the animals, not let the poachers take them. And time and time again we’ve seen animals are protected when they’re actually legally hunted,” Daines said.

“I side with the hunters. Because, again, hunters bring dollars into these poor African countries that allow them to invest in enforcement of laws that stop poaching,” he said. “So again, as an avid hunter myself, it is hunters who are some of the best conservationists in our nation.”

The Safari Club and the National Rifle Association (NRA) had previously brought a joint lawsuit against the Interior Department that in part asked the service to “follow notice and comment rulemaking when adopting country-wide, negative enhancement and non-detriment findings that have the effect of banning imports into the United States.”

However, animal rights groups have criticized the silently announced FWS policy change as a clear circumvention to that federal court decision, because the new policy would determine each case individually, with no chance for public scrutiny.

Nevertheless, Safari Club President Paul Babaz called the new policy change the “right track.”

“SCI supports the decision and feels the Fish and Wildlife Service is on the right track to make solid decisions for elephant conservation. Hunting in Southern Africa is important to the people there and the conservation of species and habitat throughout the region,” he said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday.